The National Guard along with police and Federal Marshals illegally confiscated guns in a clear violation of the citizens’ Constitutional rights.
Now, the grunts were just following orders, but the officers, starting with the General in overall comand should have refused to obey the Mayor’s order. As far as I know, all those officers are still in comand positions.
If they will violate the Constitution in one instance why do you think they wouldn’t violate it in another?
If those officers will obey an unconstitutional order from a local mayor why should we believe they would not obey an unconstitutional order from the President?
http://www.reason.com/news/show/32966.html
“In the nearly two weeks since Hurricane Katrina, the government of New Orleans has devolved from its traditional status as an elective kleptocracy into something far more dangerous: an anarcho-tyranny that refuses to protect the public from criminals while preventing people from protecting themselves. At the orders of New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, the New Orleans Police, the National Guard, the Oklahoma National Guard, and U.S. Marshals have begun breaking into homes at gunpoint, confiscating their lawfully-owned firearms, and evicting the residents. “No one is allowed to be armed. We’re going to take all the guns,” says P. Edwin Compass III, the superintendent of police.”
It is amazing to me. All those Katrina victims had been attending town hall meetings and opposing the administration’s plans, they were reported to flag@whitehouse.gov so their guns were confiscated?
I remember that. The NRA sued and I believe won a judgement. As I remember, the court ordered the guns returned, not that they were needed after the fact.
I remember seeing on the local news a big CHP officer body slamming a little old grandma to the floor because she produced her little pistol to show them she had “protection, food and water and dogfood and wanted to stay in her home.”
I was embarrased for a moment to be a Californian. What the CHP was doing there I don’t know?